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Happy Birthday Mark Rothko!
Posted by J. Quigley in 20th Century, abstract expressionism, art, paintings, People on September 30, 2012
Happy Birthday Mark Rothko!
September 25, 1903“I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”
Bottom: No. 61 (Rust and Blue), 1953, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Source: robertwash
Yayoi Kusama
Posted by J. Quigley in 21st Century, 21st Century, abstract expressionism, art brut, feminism, japanese art, Minimalism, obsessivism, Pop, surrealism on September 9, 2011
Yayoi Kusama SELF POTRAIT WITH MIRROR
Yayoi Kusama ( born 1928, Matsumoto )
One of the largest contemporary artists in Japan.
Kusama is also enigmatic – critics have variously ascribed her work to minimalism, feminism, obsessivism, surrealism, art brut, pop, and abstract expressionism.
Because of fragile mental health, she voluntarily lives at a Tokyo psychiatric hospital, in a small room, for over 20 years.
Yin Yang 